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The poor law

Helen and Bernard Bosanquet

(Pioneers in social welfare, 2 . Hellen and Bernard Bosanquet : works on economics & social welfare : the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare)

Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996

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Description

Unemployment, poverty and the role of the state were themes which structured the discourse of social theory and the developing social legislation in Britain at the end of the Victorian period and the early twentieth century. This collection examines the neglected contribution of Bernard and Helen Bosanquet to that contemporary maelstrom of ideas about the condition of the people, the process of social reform and the practice of social work. Like their contemporaries Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the Bosanquets were a significant partnership integrating philosophy and practice, theory and action. Bernard Bosanquet, the Idealist philosopher, is best known for his study The Philosophical Theory of the State. His wife Helen, economist and social worker, was a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws (1905-9) and between 1909 and 1921, editor of the Charity Organisation Review. Themselves selective supporters of state welfare schemes, they helped to re-fashion the Charity Organisation Society away from its nineteenth century individualism by their advocacy of organic social collectivism. But character, self development and responsibility remained central tenets of their welfare programme. This collection re-publishes most of the Bosanquets' principal books and articles relating to the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare. The development of their ideas in the context of their own time, and their relevance to current debates in the theory and practice of welfare, forms the basis of a substantial introduction by David Gladstone, the series editor.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Biography, 534pp, Politics and Philosophy, 704pp, Social and Economic Conditions I, 582pp, Social and Economic Conditions II, 575pp, The Poor Law, 312pp, Social Work and Charity, 65pp.

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  • NCID
    BA28766893
  • ISBN
    • 0415140277
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    1 v. (various pagings)
  • Size
    23 cm
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